Here's the progression of the mycelium starting to colonize the substrate

Now here's my partly finished fruiting chamber I made with the more progressed shroom cakes.. The pictures don't show it, but since I never had a humidifier in there, I cut 2 liter soda bottles at the bottom to place around the cakes and sprayed the inside with warm water every day. Mushrooms need extremely high humidity to grow, and this method worked PERFECT.. I never read anywhere at the time to do that, and ended up getting a higher average yield than most people who do the pf-tek method

Here's the next day (I think) of the shrooms in the fruiting chamber (it takes 2-4 days for the shrooms to pop up once they are set up in this stage)

Here's the first set of shrooms finishing up right before I picked them.. also a picture of my first mushroom that I picked

Here's my next flush.. what you do after you harvest your shrooms for the first time, you give them a water shock..
What I did was get a giant fish tank filled 1/2 way up with water, and put the shroom cakes in there...but I found out how fucking buoyant these things are so I had to put a metal screen on top with a weight to force them in the water for roughly 18 hours. After that I coated them with another layer of vermiculite and let them grow back up

Jesus says herrrro

overall I got 1.5 dried ounces from a total of 4 flushes

Oh yeah, I used a desiccant (I forget the name of it) to dry the mushrooms, which took roughly two days. The way I did it was get a giant salad bowl, put a small amount of the desiccant on the bottom with a metal screen on top that the mushrooms laid on.

I used an average tote with a pull up top lid so I could put a light to hang on top (best to use battery powered light and attach it to the top)

On the bottom of it I had 1.5 inches of perlite and a water mix for the ground medium

How did you maintain the appropriate temperature and humidity?

I didn't actually need to change the temperature, the area I had it in was 70 degrees which is ideal..actually anywhere between 68-75 is perfect. For the humidity I cut the bottom of a 2 liter soda bottle so I can put it around it to surround the cakes. With that, I sprayed the inside of them with warm water for every day it fruited (2 weeks total for 4 flushes) to keep the humidity levels high. mushrooms need about 90-95% humidity for the best results and It worked perfectly fine as a mini humidity chamber for each cake

How did you maintain appropriate sterilization throughout the process?

I did everything in a pretty clean room, and wiped down everything that would be touching or touch the jars from the start until I put them away in a safe storage spot for a few weeks (mine took 5 weeks actually to fully cake over) with sanitizing wipes and to help even more, you should wear latex gloves. My second time doing this I actually was stupid and was lazy with the sterilization, but they still ended up not becoming contaminated

Was the inoculation process diffucult?

not at all.. to be honest, the hardest part was figuring out how to get our pressure cooker working correctly. It's almost as easy as baking a cake, just follow the exact ingredients to the mix and all will go well

I've gone through them twice, each order was received in a stealth package within 5 days.. also order the syringe, not the prints.. if you get the prints, you'll need to put them in a syringe anyway so it's almost pointless. Each syringe comes with 10mL of a water/spore mix and can inoculate up to 8-10 cakes

I bought the B+ as they are the easiest to grow and produce very high yields, but the choice is yours what you want. Other mushrooms aren't as giving to temp/humidity change, or might produce way less yields

[quote=spri7e]Oh yeah, I used a desiccant (I forget the name of it) to dry the mushrooms, which took roughly two days. The way I did it was get a giant salad bowl, put a small amount of the desiccant on the bottom with a metal screen on top that the mushrooms laid on.
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calcium chloride also known as damp-rid or damp be gone (avialable in "refill" packs at any hardware store...menards/lowes)

yeah, if you want to know anything about mushrooms, or want to learn how to do it.. shroomery is the best. It's got professional mycologists, a thread about every technique, and a very informative site. I remember posting my first trip report on there about 4 years ago. I have quit using mushrooms and psychedelics though as I'm happy where I'm at now. Maybe I'll try acid one more time (only done it once), and DMT a few times as it's always interested me along with ibogaine sometime

I personally believe everyone should try DMT at least once. I also believe everyone should try a hit of nitrous at the peak of an acid trip. DMT is really easy to obtain if you extract it yourself, too.

JTP wrote:I personally believe everyone should try DMT at least once. I also believe everyone should try a hit of nitrous at the peak of an acid trip. DMT is really easy to obtain if you extract it yourself, too.